Thought for the Week: The Spirit of Love

1 Sep 2016 | by Andrew Edis

Andrew Edis reflects on the Spirit of Love

The Spirit of Love is within us,

We are here to bring good news to the poor;

We are here to heal the broken hearted,

We are here to bring deliverance to the captives, the downtrodden and the oppressed.

We are here for those who languish in prison, sometimes unjustly.

We are here to bring sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, and to the lame a spark of light such that they leap inwardly with joy.

We are here to be instruments of peace and blessing, to enable integrity, honesty and justice to blossom forth, like a refreshing shower of rain after a drought.

We are here to be the acceptable face of love in a hard and cruel world, to reach out and offer the hand of friendship.

We are here to bring healing to those that mourn or who are sad, to be a garland of joy, of sweet smelling flowers instead of the dead hand of ashes.

We are here to enrobe each other with the garments of love, praise and joy so to bring light to the spirit of heaviness which sometimes bows us down.

We do this, so that we all of us here, now, in this place might be called trees of righteousness,

So that we might (in our hearts) become the plantings of love.

For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth;

So must righteousness, peace, love and joy spring forth from our hearts like a stream of living water.

And remember this – it must flow not only from us but also between us.

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